“A film that places the nightcleaners ‘ campaign within a series of broader political discussions formulated as an `open text’ which asks as many questions about its own status as a film as it does about the socio-political issues that are its subject. No engaged person should overlook its challenge” - Tony Rayns , Time Out.

“A landmark work of British political cinema and of collective and feminist film-making” – Annette Kuhn

Nightcleaners 50th anniversary screening as part of Cinetopia:DOC in Edinburgh — https://www.filmhouse.org.uk/movie/nightcleaners-qa/


NIGHTCLEANERS — CRITICAL ESSAYS

“The Nightcleaners (Part One): Rethinking Political Cinema” — Claire Johnston (Jump Cut, 1976)
https://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/onlinessays/jc12-13folder/nightcleaners.html
PDF: https://www.columbia.edu/itc/film/gaines/documentary_tradition/Johnston_The%20Nightcleaners.pdf

“Brecht in Britain: The Independent Political Film (on Nightcleaners)” — Claire Johnston & Paul Willemen (Screen, 1975–76)
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/9780230392878_7

“Nightcleaners” chapter from Art Labor, Sex Politics — Siona Wilson (University of Minnesota Press, 2015)
PDF: https://www.gc.cuny.edu/sites/default/files/2021-12/Wilson_Nightcleaners_ArtLabor-SexPolitics_small.pdf

“Nightcleaners” — Sheila Rowbotham (essay for box set)
PDF: https://www.workandwords.net/uploads/files/S._ROWBOTHAM_NightCleaners_-_ENG_.pdf

“Jolting Memory: Nightcleaners Recalled” — Sheila Rowbotham
https://libcom.org/article/jolting-memory-nightcleaners-recalled-sheila-rowbotham

“Nightcleaners (film, 1975)” — Rebecca Gordon-Nesbitt
https://shiftyparadigms.wordpress.com/art/nightcleaners-film-1975/

“Cleaning Artefacts” — Nicolas Helm-Grovas (Radical Philosophy, 2020)
https://www.radicalphilosophy.com/reviews/individual-reviews/cleaning-artefacts

“A Politics of Working-Class Culture and the…” — JW Boyall (Open Library of Humanities)
https://olh.openlibhums.org/articles/10.16995/olh.10172/


The Berwick Street Film Collective – A Retrospective Commentary by Humphry Trevelyan

The Berwick Street Film Collective: The Experimental-Political Film and Independent Film Culture in the 1970s by Dan Kidner

NIGHTCLEANERS — REVIEWS & ONLINE WRITING

“Nightcleaners” Film Dossier — Sabzian
https://www.sabzian.be/film/nightcleaners

“A Life Consumed by Work: On Nightcleaners and The Chambermaid”
https://personfriday.video.blog/2019/07/31/a-life-consumed-by-work-on-nightcleaners-and-the-chambermaid/

Time Out capsule review (Tony Rayns)
https://www.nightcleanersfilms.com/press

NIGHTCLEANERS — PROGRAMME NOTES & INSTITUTIONS

MoMA — Film Programme
https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/5276

Tate Modern — Programme Notes
https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/berwick-street-film-collective-nightcleaners-part-1

LUX Scotland — Box Set Announcement
https://luxscotland.org.uk/news/nightcleaners-36-to-77-by-berwick-street-film-collective

Raven Row — Project Page
https://ravenrow.org/projects/nightcleaners-and-36-to-77

Xcèntric / CCCB — Programme Notes
https://xcentric.cccb.org/en/programas/fitxa/berwick-street-film-collective-nightcleaners/238379

Halle für Kunst Steiermark — Screening
https://halle-fuer-kunst.at/en/program/2022-01-20-nightcleaners-berwick-street-film-collective/

Museo Reina Sofía — Subtramas
https://subtramas.museoreinasofia.es/en/contents/Nightcleaners-Part-1-

Co-Festival (Slovenia)
https://co-festival.coop/en/c/films/nightcleaners/

Official Nightcleaners Website — Film Page
https://www.nightcleanersfilms.com/films/nightcleanerspart1

Nightcleaners Resource Page
https://www.nightcleanersfilms.com/resources

James Scott Official Site — Full Film
https://www.james-scott.com/films2/v/nightcleaners-1974-full-film

’36 TO ’77 — CRITICAL ESSAYS

“Cleaning Artefacts” — Nicolas Helm-Grovas (Radical Philosophy, 2020)
https://www.radicalphilosophy.com/reviews/individual-reviews/cleaning-artefacts

JW Boyall — Open Library of Humanities
https://olh.openlibhums.org/articles/10.16995/olh.10172/

’36 TO ’77 — PROGRAMME NOTES & INSTITUTIONS

LUX — Film Page
https://lux.org.uk/work/36-to-77/

Time Out — Listing
https://www.timeout.com/movies/36-to-77

Turner Classic Movies — Listing
https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/486116/36-to-77

Official Nightcleaners Website — Film Page
https://www.nightcleanersfilms.com/films/36to77

Raven Row — Project Page
https://ravenrow.org/projects/nightcleaners-and-36-to-77

LUX Scotland — Box Set Page
https://luxscotland.org.uk/news/nightcleaners-36-to-77-by-berwick-street-film-collective